IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Onekama
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • Local Phase: Saginaw Lobe
  • User Site ID: S1989MI025005
  • User Pedon ID: S1989MI025005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0318
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61422
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 42.4211197
  • Std. Longitude: -84.8802032
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1S
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: 280 feet S and 2160 feet E of the NW corner
  • Location Description: Lee Township
  • Map Unit: 58B—Blount loam, 1 to 4 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI025—Calhoun
  • MLRA: 98—Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana Drift Plains
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-GRP—Grand Rapids, Michigan
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI025—Calhoun County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42084-D8—Olivet, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Tardy, John Reedstrom, Richard Neilson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Haplic Glossudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Onekama
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/10/2015
  • Classifier - M. Bromley
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Miami
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy till derived from mixed-calcareous
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: moraine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Pattern: deranged
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/1/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    glossic horizon

    free carbonates

    redox concentrations

    0—23

    23—74

    23—33

    74—152

    74—152

    —23—

    —51—

    —10—

    —78—

    —78—
    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    2

    —

    —

    296

    —

    0

    893

    —

    —

    8.9

    —

    —

    8

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 5.5 medium roots throughout and 5.5 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P1756. many fine roots throughout; many medium roots throughout
    B/E (E)—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); 30 percent brown (10YR 5/3) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 5.5 fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, skeletans on faces of peds and in pores; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P1757. few skeletans (sand or silt) surface features on faces of peds and in pores; many fine roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1398203; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1398203
    B/E (Bt)—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); 70 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 5.5 fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, skeletans on faces of peds and in pores; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P1757. few skeletans (sand or silt) surface features on faces of peds and in pores; many fine roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 345677; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 345677
    Bt1—33 to 53 centimeters (13.0 to 20.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) fine faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 5.5 fine roots throughout; 2 percent brown (10YR 5/3), moist, skeletans and 15 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P1758. few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; very few skeletans (sand or silt) surface features; many fine roots throughout; few fine faint 7.5YR46 mottles; continuous - phpvsfiid 345678; patchy - phpvsfiid 345679; continuous - phpvsfiid 345678; patchy - phpvsfiid 345679
    Bt2—53 to 74 centimeters (20.9 to 29.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; strong coarse subangular blocky, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 5.5 fine roots throughout; 15 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P1759. few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; many fine roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 345680; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 345680
    BC—74 to 91 centimeters (29.1 to 35.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) distinct and 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine prominent mottles; strong coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 15 percent faint brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 4 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P1760. few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few fine roots throughout; few fine prominent 10YR58 mottles; effervescence is discontinuous; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 345681; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 345681
    C—91 to 152 centimeters (35.8 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) clay loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; strong coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; 15 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 4 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 89P1761. few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few fine distinct 10YR56 mottles; effervescence is continuous; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 345682; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 345682